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ABSTRACT Honour‐based violence (HBV) is a serious social problem with significant health and social consequences for affected children. Despite growing policy attention, little is known about how child protection services address HBV in practice. This study examines how child protection investigations categorized as HBV are handled by a specialized ...
Stina Lindegren, Siv‐Britt Björktomta
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ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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Derangements in a Ferrers Board [PDF]
The classic derangement question of counting the number of derangements for n objects from some initial permutation of the objects was first considered by de Montfort in 1708.
Linz, William B
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Equal Access, Unequal Investment: Gender Differences in Workplace Training Intensity
ABSTRACT Gender differences in access to workplace training have narrowed in many countries, and training participation rates are commonly used to assess equality in skill development. However, participation rates alone do not capture how much training employees receive.
Bonwoo Koo, Jangho Yang, Brian Cozzarin
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Chronic silencing of subsets of layer 5 projection neurons has distinct effects on the laminar distribution of PV interneurons and the perineuronal nets in the adult primary motor and somatosensory cortex. Abstract Neural networks are established throughout cortical development, which require the right ratios of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons ...
Florina P. Szabó +4 more
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Characterisation of human hair follicle development
Schematic of hair follicle development in human skin. Hair follicle primordia of similar sizes, but different densities, are laid out across the skin. The distinction between terminal and vellus hair sites is not obvious at early stages of hair follicle development.
Zoe R. Sudderick +4 more
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An introduction to currency boards [PDF]
A look at the pros and cons of currency boards as an institution for providing monetary credibility in developing countries.Currency boards ; Money ; Monetary ...
Jean M. McIntire, Owen F. Humpage
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Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
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On the Gonality of Ferrers Rook Graphs [PDF]
A Ferrers rook graph is a graph whose vertices correspond to the dots in a Ferrers diagram, and where two vertices are adjacent if they are in the same row or the same column.
Yeomans, Sydney +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how a propaganda frame alleging the existence of a “Censorship Industrial Complex” was institutionalized and then helped justify the dismantling of US election information resilience infrastructure across multiple federal agencies.
Renée DiResta, Dean Jackson
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